Washing-machine.



A. BOWERS. WASHING MACHINE,

APPL IOA'1ION FILED JANJH, 1913.

1 ,@82,066,' Patented Dec. 23, 1913] Measures BOWEBS, or DUBUQUE, IOWA- WASHING-MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patente Dec-23, 1913.

A lication ed Janua y 18, 19. -3- seri m:- 4 8- To-cll whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALEXANDER Bownus, a citizen of the United States, residing at Dubuque, in the county of Dubuque and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Washing-Ma chines, of which the following is a specific cation.

My invention relates to washing machines and the leading object is to provide means whereby the water will be forced up through the clothes and squeezed out of them, and then 'a partial vacuum formed over the clothes and the water drawn through the clothes by suction. y

In what it consists, together with the mode of assembling, and operating will be fully,

set out in the following specifications when considered in the light of the drawings accompanying the same and forming a part hereof.

Figure 1 is a perspective view taken from the front side with the guides and stays. Fig. 2 is a'vertical section through the center of Fig. 1. F ig. 3 is a horizontal section of the tank and cylinders with a plan view of the cover. Fig. 4 is a perspective view I of the tray on which the clothes rest. Fig. 5

is a perspective view of the cover showing a different mode ,of holding part of the cover down. Fig. 6 is a perspective view of a detail for loosely connecting the lever to the plunger-s and stays. Like characters of reference denote con responding parts in each of the figures.

Referring to the drawings 2 designates the tank of the washing machine, which is preferably made of galvanized iron and of rectangular shape with rounded corners. On the bottom 4 of the tank on the inside is a longitudinal partition 5, which extends through the tank.

Against the opposite outsidcs of the tank near the center there are rigidly secured cylinders 8 having water communications 6 with the tank. These cylinders are cut away at 12, for the purposes presently to appear, and each one is supplied with a plunger 14 that is packed around the edges, so as to make the icylinders nearly air and water tight. To these plunger-s are attached rods 15 which extend upward and are pivoted to a cross bar 16 by a member 18 shown in Fig.

"6. The member 18 has two arms 20 which in which the plunger rod 15 is pivoted bythe pivot pm 22. The member also is pivoted to the arm 16, by the pivot pin 24. Just,

over the partition 5 is a perforated tray. 25, shown m Fig. l, which is provided with the legs 26 'and to each side are secured suspend- 1 tank are sockets 32, in which standards 34' of an upright frame are set. These standards are united together at the. topby a cross frame The cross frame 35 isprovided with a hook 36 to whi h a coil spring 38 is attached; the lower end of the spring is attached to a lever 45. In the rear of the tank is attached a standard 40 provided with a slot 42 and with openings 4-4: in which the lever arm 15 is pivoted. This standard 40 is provided with numerous openings 44 so that the lever 45 may he pivoted in such position as to adapt it for operating the plunger or cover hereinafter to be described when there are different quantities of clothes to be washed.

A short distance down in the tank is a cover 46 which also is used as a plunger. To the center of this cover is secured a standard 48 the top of which is pivoted to the cross bar 16 by a member 50, which always maintains the standard in a vertical position without reference to the movement of the cross bar 16. To the base of this standard -18 are rigidly secured two braces 52 that are pivoted to the cross bar 16 by a member "54 similar to the member 18.

For the purpose of conveniently introducing the clothes and removing the same from the tank, the cover 4:6 is formed in two parts which are hinged together by the hinges 55 and to the part 47 is secured a stay 56 which is rcmovably fastened to the standard 48. In Fig. 5 is shown a different mode of fastening the two parts of the cover together, and it consists in placing a pair of loops 58 and 60, the loops 58 on the side 46 and the loops 60 on the side 47, and inserting under these the bars 62. i

In the front of the tank are placed two sockets 64, in each of which is inserted a guide 65. Between these guides the lever 45 is caused to travel, y

The manner of operating my device issubstantially as follows: Starting with .the

the arm 16 will travel down in the slots 30 to -ately there will be a tendency to form a and through the openings 6 into the cylinthe. tank, and when the washing is finished plungers let and the cover raised and the l arms 28 of the tray hanging from the cross bar 16 in the upper ends of the slots 30, the bar 56 is loosened from the standard 428 and the part 47 of the cover is turned back and the clothes are then inserted through this opening and rest upon the tray 25. The water is introduced and fills thetank until the clothes are partially submerged, then the part 4:? of the cover is closed down and the arm 56 is secured to the standard as. The operator then grasps the lever i5 and forces it down which action also forces down the cover, and since the tray hangs upon the cross bar 16, it will by its gravity and the gravity of the clothes, drop down as the lever 45 is forced down vuntil the legs 20' rest upon the bottom of the tank and the tray upon the legs and the partition 5. A further movement downward of the lever 45 will press the clothes down on the tray and the bottom. This action will squeeze the water out of the clothes, and at the same time, since the plungers 14 are forced down, the Water will pass through the openings 6 against the partition 5 and up through the tray and through the clothes and around the cover and on top of thesame. Then when the lever 45 is raised that will also raise the cover and the two plungers 1a and immedivacuum both in the tank under the cover and in the cylinders which will cause the water that is upon the cover to pass down around the cover onto the clothes and through them,

ders 8 and will rapidly draw the water through the clothes bysuction. In raising the lever 45 the spring 38 will come into tion and assist materially in raising the lever.

It will be seen that since the cover and the plungers l4 operate together both in going up and coming down, that, when they commence to travel up, there will be a strong tendency to form a vacuum underneath the cover and also in the cylinders 8, which will cause the water to pass rapidly through'the clothes and hence the water will be continually forced both up and down through the clothes with considerable rapidity, so that the clothes will be washed in a very limited amount of time. If any water should collect in the cylinders 8 above the plunger-s let, itwill run out through the opening 12 into the plug is removed from the opening 3 in the rear at the bottom of the tank and the water in the tank can be readily drawn oft.

Having now described my invention what I claim is I I 1, In a device of the character descrihed, a tank, cylinders on opposite sides of the tank, plungers in the cylinders each pro-.-

vided with a plunger rod, a tray on which the clothes rest within the tank, a cover, and means for simultaneously forcing down the cover upon the clothes on the tray and the plungers in the cylinders.

In a device of the character described, a tank, a cover adapted to travel up and down in the tank, a tray within the tank, means for raising and lowering the cover and tray at the same time, andmeans for arresting the downward movement of the tray while the cover is forced down upon. the clothes on the tray to force the water from and through the clothes.

3. In a device of the character described, a tank, a cover adapted to travel up and down ill the tank, a tray the tank, and means after the cover has forced the water out of the clothes while resting on the for causing the cover to tr JVQl upward first and then the tray.

l. in a device of the character described, a tank, a perforated tray in the tank having arms extending out of the tank and pro vided with slots, a cover adapted to he moved up and down in the tank, cylinders on opposite sides of the tank communicatingwith the tank, a plunger in each cylinder, a lever, and means for connecting the lever with the plungers, the cover and the tray, whereby the tray, plungers and cover are moved and down together. a

5. in a device oi the character described, a tank, a cylinder on each side of the tank with an opening into the tank, plungers in "he cylinders, cover within the tank, a le ver, means for connecting the lever to the cover and plungers, a tray within the said trav sue ended from the means for con necting the cover and plurigers to the lever and operated by the lever.

6. in a device of the character described, a tank, a cylinder on the opposite sides of the tank, 'plungers within the cylinders, a cover within the tank, a tray within. the tank, a cross bar to which the cover, the plungers and the tray are loosely secured, andvmeans connected with the cross bar for forcing water ,out the clothes While the clothes rest on the tray beneath the, cover.

, 7. In a device of the character described, a tank, cylinders on the sides of the tank, provided with pluhgers and plunger rods, a cover in tank, a tray, arms on the tray extending above the tank, a cross bar loosely connected "to the plunger rods, the cover and the tray, a lever-connected to said cross bar, a frame connected to the tank, and a spring connecting the frame with the lever.

8. In a device of the character described a tank, cylinders upon the sides of the tank with water communications with the tank, plungers inthe cylinders provided with plunger rods, a cover adapted to travel up and tank, a tray inahe tank,a

cross bar loosely connected to the plunger ing the cover from the clothes and then raisrods, the tray and the cover, a lever coning the tray with the clothes thereon. 1o nected to the cross bar and adapted to raise In testimony whereof I allix my signature and lower the cover the tray and the plum in presence of two Witnesses.

gers, means connected with the cover and ALEXANDER BOWERS. tray for arresting the movement of the tray Witnesses: while the cover is forced downward upon M. M. OADY,

the clothes on the tray, and means for mis- B. M. HENsoJEmL. 

